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<p><code>#include &lt;<a class="el" href="tinyxml2_8h_source.html">tinyxml2.h</a>&gt;</code></p>
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Public Member Functions</h2></td></tr>
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&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_handle.html#a9c240a35c18f053509b4b97ddccd9793">XMLHandle</a> (<a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_node.html">XMLNode</a> *node)</td></tr>
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<a name="details" id="details"></a><h2 class="groupheader">Detailed Description</h2>
<div class="textblock"><p>A <a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_handle.html">XMLHandle</a> is a class that wraps a node pointer with null checks; this is an incredibly useful thing. Note that <a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_handle.html">XMLHandle</a> is not part of the TinyXML-2 DOM structure. It is a separate utility class.</p>
<p>Take an example: </p><pre class="fragment">&lt;Document&gt;
    &lt;Element attributeA = "valueA"&gt;
        &lt;Child attributeB = "value1" /&gt;
        &lt;Child attributeB = "value2" /&gt;
    &lt;/Element&gt;
&lt;/Document&gt;
</pre><p>Assuming you want the value of "attributeB" in the 2nd "Child" element, it's very easy to write a <em>lot</em> of code that looks like:</p>
<pre class="fragment">XMLElement* root = document.FirstChildElement( "Document" );
if ( root )
{
    XMLElement* element = root-&gt;FirstChildElement( "Element" );
    if ( element )
    {
        XMLElement* child = element-&gt;FirstChildElement( "Child" );
        if ( child )
        {
            XMLElement* child2 = child-&gt;NextSiblingElement( "Child" );
            if ( child2 )
            {
                // Finally do something useful.
</pre><p>And that doesn't even cover "else" cases. <a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_handle.html">XMLHandle</a> addresses the verbosity of such code. A <a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_handle.html">XMLHandle</a> checks for null pointers so it is perfectly safe and correct to use:</p>
<pre class="fragment">XMLHandle docHandle( &amp;document );
XMLElement* child2 = docHandle.FirstChildElement( "Document" ).FirstChildElement( "Element" ).FirstChildElement().NextSiblingElement();
if ( child2 )
{
    // do something useful
</pre><p>Which is MUCH more concise and useful.</p>
<p>It is also safe to copy handles - internally they are nothing more than node pointers. </p><pre class="fragment">XMLHandle handleCopy = handle;
</pre><p>See also <a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_const_handle.html">XMLConstHandle</a>, which is the same as <a class="el" href="classtinyxml2_1_1_x_m_l_handle.html">XMLHandle</a>, but operates on const objects. </p>
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